Comments on: Spinster aunt discovers huge mushroom

By: PandanCat

PandanCat — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:49:37 +0000

Mushrooms are the best. I still have my Mycological Society sweatshirt from my college years.

Also, the story about the sheriff made my day.

By: She-cago

She-cago — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:46:47 +0000

I dig.

By: socialworkerblamer

socialworkerblamer — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:36:19 +0000

It’s still raining today in central Texas and I also have more mushrooms than I can shake a stick at, although why anyone would want to do that is beyond me.

By: ivyleaves

ivyleaves — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:29:14 +0000

“I may have to chop that mushroom down today anyway, though, because pale people in flowing robes have started showing up to worship it. I’ve got a team of Alaskan loggers standing by, and holy shit, they’re almost as annoying as the mushroom worshipers.”

By posting that, you will probably have one or two mushroom-top sitters holding out for weeks to prevent it from being cut down.

By: Antoinette Niebieszczanski

Antoinette Niebieszczanski — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:28:03 +0000

Are you sure they’re mushroom worshipers and not Snuggy-wearing Satanists? Seriously. A person could be forgiven for thinking the ad in which the whole family is decked out in red Snuggies is a “Rosemary’s Baby” outtake.

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:52:00 +0000

Off subject but I thought you might have a thing or two to say about this:

http://www.calbuzz.com/2009/10/schwarzmuscle-to-rape-victims-tough-luck-girls/

Love your site and your pithy commentary!

By: Jill

Jill — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:09:04 +0000

“The whole thing was staged.”

OK, I’ll cop to it. The call I received was not, as I first joked, from the international space station. It was from my neighbor, complaining that the shadow cast by my giant mushroom was killing his pasture grass and starving his cattle. I put the grass on it to make it seem smaller so the sheriff, who came to take it into custody, wouldn’t buy his story. My ploy was successful; fortunately that sheriff isn’t the most sharply-creased pair of boot-cut Wranglers in the closet.

I may have to chop that mushroom down today anyway, though, because pale people in flowing robes have started showing up to worship it. I’ve got a team of Alaskan loggers standing by, and holy shit, they’re almost as annoying as the mushroom worshipers.

By: Comrade PhysioProf

Comrade PhysioProf — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:10:49 +0000

“SHENANIGANS! You totally fucked around with perspective to make that thing look huge.”

Au contraire, mon frère! It really is that big. As a matter of fact, I just got a call from the international space station; they were wondering what the fuck is that thing on my lawn. They seemed relieved when I told’em; they’d initially thought it was a software glitch.

No wai! The whole thing was staged. How did those grass blades end up on top of the “mushroom”? HUH?

By: arfeuse

arfeuse — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:19:29 +0000

Chihiro – fellow UK resident here – watched about ten seconds of the programme, felt sick, had to retire to bed with camomile tea. Well done on making it as far as you did and retaining a blame-attitude. Actually the only upside that I can see is raising people’s awareness of police attitudes to & poor treatment of rape victims. And maybe at least it’s good to see some reality applied to the topic, no matter how depressing, rather than the usual glossy bullsh!t crime drama attitude: “TV show ratings dropping? Oh well, stick in some casual brutalisation of a glamorous woman, that should appeal to everyone”. GRRRRRRRRRR. Blameblameblame.

By: Aunty Christ

Aunty Christ — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:47:07 +0000

Chihiro, I’ll see your off-topic and raise you one. I haven’t seen that program(me), and can only speak for U.S. law enforcement reactions (and only then, I suppose, those I’ve seen), but what you describe sounds sadly familiar and very realistic. It makes me ill.

About the mushroom: It sure is beautiful.